Animal Psychiatry

[Catherine]

If you have to put your dog on Prozac there is something wrong in how you and the dog are living.

Temporary sedation in a crisis, like temporary pain killers, would be useful. When we start using these drugs all the time there is something wrong.

Better to look at how the dog feels and meet his needs rather than give him drugs so that he no longer feels like himself. The drugs just mask the real problem.  Find a companion for a dog that doesn't like being left alone all day. Dogs are not meant to be alone.